I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Thus one finds much more happiness in the world than sad eyes see, if one only reckons rightly, and does not forget… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Ages of happiness. - An age of happiness is quite impossible, because men want only to desire it but not to have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessities,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Progress. — Let us not be deceived! Time marches forward; we'd like to believe that everything that is in it also marches… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To what end the ‘world’ exists, to what end ‘mankind’ exists, ought not to concern us at all for the moment except… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
